Kitchens in China
China- first a kitchen counters market, then a competitorIn the beginning of the nineties no one knew anything of China kitchen counters. In the early nineties the fast development of coastal China, especially in Guangzou and Shanghai, where modern gleaming skyscrapers seemed to be coming up every day, meant there were huge projects of granite, which was supplied by the European companies. China became a very attractive market for the best and biggest granite kitchen counters companies from Europe. But after 1998 there was a complete change. Suddenly Chinese companies started doing first small simple kitchen projects, then medium sized kitchen projects and now many do big counters projects in China. There is hardly any business left today in China for foreigners and that too only in special materials and complex projects. China is now often the most important buyer of granite kitchen in several colours like red, to be processed in the many modern companies that have recently come up. Chinese companies are also exporting granite kerbstones and tiles all over the world, at unbeatable prices. Moreover, they have even become serious competitors in Europe for standard size tiles in major projects with incredibly low prices in grey and light coloured local materials.
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